The Herd:
The Buffalo Bisons return to Coca-Cola Field tonight with a little momentum.
After dropping the first five games of a road trip, the Herd rallied to win the last three, including Sunday's 12-8 victory over Columbus before 8,710 at Huntington Park. The Herd (43-67) captured the series with the Clippers, 3-1.
The game against Columbus marked the final contest for the Herd against an opponent outside the International League North division. The team finished 13-19 against the IL West, while compiling a 14-17 record against the IL South.
Starter Lance Broadway (4-7) recorded the win tossing 6� innings while giving up six runs on 10 hits, striking out one and walking one.
Argenis Reyes didn't waste any time extending his season-long hitting streak to eight games, singling in his first at-bat. He is now hitting .378 during the streak.
Buffalo pounded out 14 hits. Nick Evans had a two-run home run in the first inning. The Herd batted around twice, in the third and the sixth.
Jeurys Familia, rhp, Mets. Signed out of the Dominican in '07, just a few months after Jenrry Mejia, Familia has emerged as ace of the low Class A Savannah staff. The 19-year-old righty lacks polish, but his low- to mid-90s fastball already rates as plus-plus, according to one scout for an AL club. The reason: Familia has exceptional life on and command of the pitch, a combination that's rare for such a young pitcher. His changeup his is second-best offering for now, and he'll need to refine his breaking ball to make it as a starter. On the season, Familia has gone 9-6, 2.90 in 20 starts for the Sand Gnats. Over 118 innings, he has stuck out 97, walked 40 and allowed just 94 hits (three home runs).
Clones:
The Brooklyn Cyclones (32-19) beat the Jamestown Jammers (20-31) by a score of 8-4 on Sunday night to win the last game of the series, heading into Monday's NYPL-wide off day.LHP Mark Cohoon pitched another gem, earning his league-leading seventh win with 7.0 strong innings. Cohoon allowed three runs on three hits in the second inning, but did not allow a run in any other frame. He allowed six hits in total, one walk, and struck out five batters. Matias Carrillo came on in relief in the eighth inning, and closed out the Jammers with 2.0 innings, in which he allowed just one hit -- a solo home run.The Cyclones' offense racked up 14 hits in the game, with Sam Honeck going 4-for-4 to lead the charge. Honeck (pictured, by George Napolitano) scored once and drove in two. Nick Santomauro, Alex Gregory, and Matt Gaski registered two hits eacfh, and Dock Doyle, Ralph Henriquez, John Servidio, and Nick Giarraputo had one hit apiece.After a day off on Monday, the Cyclones travel to Mahoning Valley for a three-game set, before returning to Brooklyn on Friday, August 14th to kick off a series with the Oneonta Tigers. On the 14th, fireworks will accompany the Friday night game.
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K-Port:
The Kingsport Mets had Johnson City starter Chris Notti on the ropes early, but the young pitcher kept his cool.
His teammates responded with some run support after a shaky first inning, propelling the Cardinals to 6-2 victory in the rubber match of a three-game set at Hunter-Wright Stadium on Sunday.
The K-Mets never got the ball out of the infield in the bottom of the first inning, but they managed to hang a pair of unearned runs on Notti. The 6-foot-5 right-hander got out of the jam and Edgar Lara wasted no time getting those two runs back with one swing of the bat.
Lara’s two-run homer tied things up in the top of the second, and Hector Alvarez came around to score on a fielding error by Kingsport’s Darrell Ceciliani to give the Cards a lead they never relinquished.
Most of what little noise the Mets' offense made in four games in San Diego came in the final game Sunday. They plated three runs in the sixth inning after scoring merely six in the first three games. And most of the noise came from the bat of Jeff Francoeur. The team's primary in-season acquisition -- Francoeur was obtained from the Braves one month ago Monday -- didn't crush the Padres, but he did contribute six hits and scored three runs while most of his colleagues accomplished much less.
His latest performance, two hits in the Mets' 5-1 victory Sunday, put his batting average with the Mets at .300 in 100 at-bats. Francoeur has played in 26 games since being acquired from the Braves for Ryan Church and has gone hitless in merely seven of them -- and never in more than two straight. He drove in 19 runs in his first 20 games after the trade. And he has provided the aggressive and strong-armed defense that Mets had anticipated.
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